Word: self-interest
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...Self-interest motivates most human behavior, and therefore, it’s peculiar that liberal students would choose it as a target for their indignation. It’s even more peculiar, considering Adam Smith’s philosophy in The Wealth of Nations: “By pursuing his own interest [an individual] frequently promotes that [interest] of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.” The “public good” that...
...reason No. 3 that is the most interesting. The Administration and its supporters think--and this is going to shock you--that France is pursuing an independent Iraq policy out of naked self-interest. Chirac, in this view, is seeking to curry favor with the Islamic world and using France's disagreement with the U.S. to re-establish its political leadership in the European Union and become a rival to U.S. power...
...reason No. 3 that is the most interesting. The Administration and its supporters think - and this is going to shock you - that France is pursuing an independent Iraq policy out of naked self-interest. Chirac, in this view, is seeking to curry favor with the Islamic world and using France's disagreement with the U.S. to re-establish its political leadership in the European Union and become a rival to U.S. power...
This is not an issue about which any member of society should feel ambivalent, including law-abiding Harvard students. It is in everyone’s self-interest to ensure that our prisons are decently safe places. Most prisoners eventually return to society, and it is dangerous if they come out saturated with the practices of violent prison culture; certainly they will not have been fully rehabilitated if that is the case. Everyone should be concerned that a night in a holding cell for a wrongful arrest does not leave them or a loved one a victim of sexual assault...
...matter. Nine days earlier, the State Department's intelligence arm had sent a memo directly to Secretary of State Colin Powell that also disputed the Italian intelligence. Greg Thielmann, then a high-ranking official at State's research unit, told TIME that it was not in Niger's self-interest to sell the Iraqis the destabilizing ore. "A whole lot of things told us that the report was bogus," Thielmann said later. "This wasn't highly contested. There weren't strong advocates on the other side. It was done, shot down...